Throughout Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime efficiency, a protester ran onto the sector and unfurled a pink, black, inexperienced and white and Palestinian flag.
The protest began onstage throughout Lamar’s set, with the person unfurling the banner with the phrases “Sudan” and “Gaza” written its one white stripes.
A protester holds a flag onstage throughout Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LIX Halftime Present (Emilee Chinn/Getty Photos)
In video shot by Deadline, the person is then seen leaping off the raised stage the place Lamar is performing and scrambling towards the 50-yard line as he unfurls the flag once more. He holds the banner aloft and runs in a circle, ostensibly to provide these watching a view of the flag. After he does his first lap and runs about 10 yards up and down the sector he’s tackled by three folks.
The on-field second was not captured on the telecast, as all cameras had been skilled on Lamar and his intricate, highly-choreographed routine.
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A swarm of suit-jacketed officers rapidly obtained the person to the sideline, as subsequent video, additionally shot by Deadline, attests.
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It’s in all probability not a coincidence that the on-field protest got here with President Donald Trump in attendance. Earlier this week, Trump announced at a White Home press convention that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip and “personal it.”
Requested the place Gazans ought to go, whether or not they need to return after it’s rebuilt and, if not, who he envisioned dwelling there, Trump replied, “I envision world folks dwelling there. The world’s folks. I believe you’ll make that into a world, unbelievable place. I believe the potential within the Gaza Strip is unbelievable.” He added that Palestinians additionally would reside there, whereas additionally suggesting that Jordan and Egypt would take them for resettlement.
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